During exhibitions, visitors may wish to purchase prints of your images on display and the competition allows for this.
If you are a category winner or commended and your image is to be displayed at an official exhibition, it is assumed that you will allow your image(s) to be sold as a print. If you do not want your images sold, then you must inform us.
We sell prints on your behalf and all profits go to you the photographer.
The galleries we host exhibitions at are all staffed by highly experienced people. They know what works best, therefore we follow their guidance and expertise where selling prints are concerned.
The galleries we work with have all trialled selling artworks by placing links to order online via a website, but had no success. This is because there are too many variables when it comes to print sizes, paper, frames etc and almost all sales are abandoned.
Buying a print is a personal experience and visitors who enquire are usually serious about buying prints. The human interaction process works best because the print can be discussed with the gallery, what works best for them, frames etc. The gallery takes a deposit and this means all enquiries result in a sale.
At exhibitions, the competition places signs on the walls informing visitors what the prints are made of (e.g Permajet fine art matte, lutre etc). On the same signs visitors are told they can purchase prints and to fill in forms or contact a member of staff. Forms are left on tables around the gallery.
When the visitor fills in the form with details of the print they want, the size, the finish etc, the gallery staff will close the sale and contact the competition with the details of the print required.
Note: It is standard for galleries to take a fee for any work sold during an exhibition and that is agreed with the gallery in advance. This is usually around 20% of the profit.
The competition then contacts the photographer with the order and offers them the option to sell the print directly. If the photographer cannot produce the print, the competition will make the print for them at a subsidised cost.
See example below for print produced by the competition:
Print Sale Price – £500
Cost of print (paper, ink, packaging) – £50
Profit before fees – £450
Gallery commission – £90
Photographer profit – £360